Chapter 663: Rainy Night, Daoist Temple (Extra Chapter 610)

Bang!

Dong Yushu slammed into the door of the Daoist Temple in a sorry state, emitting a loud thud.

Splat!

"Cough! Hiss..."

Rebounded by the immense force, Dong Yushu fell to the ground, dizzy and seeing stars, her head buzzing, while the wounds she had struggled to suppress across her body burst open for the most part.

"No... huh?"

Ignoring the pain in her body, she looked up in confusion at the wooden door of the Daoist Temple, which was covered in leaves.

What just happened?

Shouldn't I have already charged into the Daoist Temple? Why am I still outside the door... Hiss!

This door... why is it so hard?

She actually failed to break in?

This!!?

Although she was a renowned up-and-coming talent of the Southern Border Shenzhou, Dong Yushu was ranked in the top ten of the Hidden Dragon Ranking and Earth Ranking; while her strength was not equal to the top three, it was not much different from the others.

At less than thirty years of age, her strength had actually broken through to the mid-stage of Spirit Transformation, surpassing the vast majority of senior experts.

Yet, a cultivator who could not be considered weak anywhere she went could not even knock open the main gate!?

"That is to say..." Dong Yushu shook her head, light suddenly igniting in her eyes, and she couldn't help but clench her fists.

"Indeed! It really is like this!"

This place truly has a problem!!!

After realizing this point, Dong Yushu was not alarmed but delighted, feeling as if she had grasped a glimmer of survival, and she stood up with some excitement.

After getting up, she did not rush to find a way to enter the Daoist Temple, but first bowed deeply and respectfully toward the temple, saying respectfully: "This junior, Dong Yushu, is being pursued by villains and has mistakenly entered this precious place. I have no intention of offending you, Senior; I hope you can forgive me..."

Speaking up to here, Dong Yushu hesitated slightly, but the situation before her did not allow for hesitation; she secretly gritted her teeth, raised her hand, and saluted:

"This junior begs you, Senior, hoping you can give this junior a little help and allow me to enter the temple to hide!"

"If this junior survives this calamity, I will definitely repay your great kindness and virtue in the future!"

The black night was silent; Dong Yushu's pleas received no response, only the light sound of raindrops hitting the tiles of the Daoist Temple after falling.

No one responded to her humble request.

Gulp.

Although Dong Yushu felt regretful about such a result, she was not surprised; the strength of the Daoist Temple's owner must far exceed her own.

Regardless of whether the other party had truly noticed her, whatever reaction they made was their own freedom.

"... Hoo!"

But with this being the only seemingly reliable path to survival at the moment, Dong Yushu could not easily give up this life-saving straw, and she was still somewhat unwilling to give up.

After thinking for a moment, she walked slowly to the door, took a deep breath, and tentatively knocked on the door.

Knock, knock.

The black night was silent, and the knocking sound traveled far, eventually merging into the rain.

There was still no response from inside.

"... Pardon the intrusion."

Only after there was no response from inside did she dare to push the door forward.

"!!!"

Dong Yushu had originally held no hope, but the next moment, the gate that she hadn't even been able to knock open earlier now felt as light as nothing, as if it were an ordinary wooden door, and she pushed it open easily without using much force.

Creak—

Dong Yushu was excited in her heart, and without caring to investigate the situation inside, she flashed into the Daoist Temple.

The moment she passed through the mountain gate, Dong Yushu felt as if she had passed through an invisible thin film.

That feeling lasted for less than a breath; she hadn't even had time to recall it before she had forgotten it completely, as if it were just an illusion.

It was still raining at night, and there was no cover over the courtyard of the Daoist Temple, yet there was not a trace of moisture on the ground.

But the cold clothes still dripping with water on her body kept reminding her that the desperate escape in the rainy night was not a dream.

Looking up, Dong Yushu's pupils shrank; she could see the raindrops in the sky falling downward, but they evaporated and dissipated silently before reaching the Daoist Temple, as if they had flowed into another place.

This scene was not rare; many sects' protective Great Arrays could achieve this, isolating rain and other foreign substances.

"This..."

But this place was different; it gave Dong Yushu a feeling she had never experienced before—a more eerie feeling!

The interior of the Daoist Temple was the same as the scene seen from outside; wildly growing weeds occupied most of the courtyard, and some nameless branches and leaves were even wrapped around the incense-burning tripod.

It really looked as if it had been abandoned for hundreds of years; there was no firelight, and no aura or traces of anyone ever existing here could be felt, only the remnants left behind after being washed away by the long passage of time.

Carefully looking around, Dong Yushu did not find any clues related to the name of the Daoist Temple, as if all text had been wiped from here.

"..."

Dong Yushu pursed her lips and remained silent for a while, then turned back toward the gate of the Daoist Temple and... raised her hand to gently close it.

Creak—click.

It was just a pity that there was no wooden bolt on the door, so she couldn't lock it completely, otherwise she definitely would have.

This Daoist Temple is full of strangeness everywhere? This place is not suitable for a long stay?

Heh.

If this place weren't dangerous, I wouldn't have broken in!

Wealth is sought in danger.

Having already fallen to this point, where would I have the qualifications to be picky?

Regardless of what the other party is actually thinking, since they did not take the initiative to drive me away, I shall stay here for now, at least until I stabilize my injuries.

Dong Yushu did not care about anything else; she quickly took off her blood-stained, tattered upper garment, revealing her fair upper body and the shocking wounds left behind after being ambushed.

Three hideous, massive wounds cut in from her right shoulder and slashed out at her left waist; the wounds were extremely deep, gouging out large chunks of flesh and leaving marks even on the exposed white bone, nearly severing her in two!

Dong Yushu had previously sealed her senses, forcibly blocking out this pain, but she could not continue to do so while applying medicine, so she took a deep breath and undid the Seal.

"Hoo... Hiss!!!"

The instant her sense of pain returned, blue veins bulged on Dong Yushu's forehead and her whole body could not stop trembling, but she did not cry out, clenching her teeth tightly.

This place does not tolerate insolence; she absolutely must not provoke the existence in the shadows!

The injuries were on her back, but fortunately, this did not stump a cultivator of the Earth Realm; Dong Yushu did not use anyone's help, shakily applying the medicine with her Dharma Power, and soon used up the last of the medicinal powder she had on her.

She had temporarily controlled the injuries, but it was only treating the symptoms and not the root cause; she could not fully suppress them, and if she were not careful, the wounds would split open again, and by that time, the injuries would only be more severe than before.

What to do?

Beg the person in the shadows to help?

Dong Yushu felt that this request was truly too presumptuous, and she feared the other party would not agree.

And just at this moment, Dong Yushu's gaze rested on an object inside the Daoist Temple, and a thought flashed through her Heart Star.

"What if I do it myself?"

Dong Yushu held one hand across her chest, walked to the front of the large tripod, glanced at the remaining incense ash inside, and bowed carefully once more, praying: "This junior's injuries are too severe; I beg of the senior for a bit of incense ash to stop the bleeding."

Still, no one answered, and since Dong Yushu was already familiar with the process, she did not wait, reaching one hand into the tripod to grab a handful of incense ash and scattering it toward her back.

And when the seemingly ordinary incense ash landed on the wounds, the injuries that had previously been impossible to suppress actually began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye!

In just a few breaths, they scabbed over, and before Dong Yushu could even recover her senses, the scabs had already drifted to the ground with the movement of her turning her head, turning into powder and shattering away.

!!?